GIFT  OF 


Contents. 
"1  The  prophecy.  1794.  By  Dr.  Timothy  Dwight.  (Poem). 

*4.  Assembly  bill  no.  49.  Introduced  by  Mr.  Holden  Dec. 
18,  1865.  An  act  to  establish  an  agricultural  and 
mechanical  arts  college  in  Sonoma  County. 

•5  Agricultural  college.  Address  of  Hon.  A.  A.  Sargent 
Sept.  21,  1865. 

^4.  Report  of  the  Committee  cof  the  Senate}  on  /State 
university  to  whom  was  referred  memorial  of  the 
Mechanics  institute  of  San  Francisco.  Feb.  10,  18' 

*£  Mining  sdhools  inthe  U.  S.,  by  J.  A.  Church.  1871. 
(U.C.  p.  21-22)  (Repr.  fr.  North  American  review. 
Jan.  1871). 

^  Report  con  the  Oakland  college  block  property.  Nov.1' 
1871. 

*7  Our  state  university  and  th«  aspirant  to  the  preside: 
cby  Gustavus  Schulte  1  1872. 

*&  Columbia's  wrath,  not  sparing  the  Regents  of  the  Sta- 
university  of  California  cby  Gustavus  Schulte  1874 


ix#  The  resignation  of  the  Board  of  regents,  (the  ex-off 
members  excepted)  dictated  by  a  sense  of  honor  and 
duty  cby  Gustavus  Schulte  3  1'874. 

"lO  Reply  of  D.  C.  ^ilman  to  criticisms  of  the  Univ.  of 
California  made  by  the  Rev.  Robert  Patterson,  of 
Oakland,  c  1873  3  (With  two  letters  concerning  same. 

»/ll  Report  on  the  water  supply  of  the  Univ.  of  Californii 
cby  Frank  Soule,jr.3  1874. 

v!2  Report  on  the  water  supply  of  the  Univ.  of  CaliforniJ 
cby  a  special  committee  of  the  Regents  l  Dec.  1877. 

Report  of  the  Committees  on  Du1  lie  buildings  and 
grounds  of  the  Senate  and  Assembly,  c  1875-76  i. 

Majority  and  minority  reports  of  the  Senate  conriitte< 
on  education  relative  to  Assembly  bill  no.  374. 
c!875-763  (Concerning  abolition  of  Board  of  regenti 
etc.  3)  . 

15  Report  of  the  Committee  on  education  to  the  Assembly- 
22d  session.  c!878:j. 

v/16  Report'  of  the  Senate  committee  on  education.  Feb.  1,11 

;  17  Report  of  the  cAssemblyi  committee  on  education.  Feb 
1883. 

18  Report  of  cAs^emblyi  committee  on  Agricultural,  Minii 
and  Mechanics1  arts  college.  Feb.  13,  1883. 


IR  T]  PORT 


COMMITTEE  ON  STATE  UNIVERSITY 


TO    WHOM    WAS    REFERRED 


MEMORIAL  OF  THE  MECHANICS'  INSTITUTE 


SA.N    FRANCISCO. 


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UNIVERSITY  OFl 


CALIFORNIA. 


SACRAMENTO: 

D  .    VV  .    G  KL  WICKS,    STATE     P  R  1  X  T  K  R  . 

1870. 


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UNIVERSITY  OF 

CALIFORNIA. 


El  P  O  H  T 


OP   THE 


COMMITTEE  ON  STATE  UNIVERSITY 


TO    WHOM    WAS    REFERRED 


MEMORIAL  OF  THE  MECHANICS'  INSTITUTE 


S-A.N"    FRANCISCO. 


D.  W.  GELWICKS STATE  PRINTER. 


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REPORT. 


SENATE  CHAMBER,  February  10th,  1870. 

Mr.  PRESIDENT  :  The  Committee  on  the  State  University,  to  whom 
was  referred  the  memorial  of  the  Mechanics'  Institute  of  the  City  of 
San  Francisco,  praying  that  the  Colleges  of  Mines,  Agriculture,  Engi- 
neering and  Mechanical  Arts  connected  with  the  University  of  Califor- 
nia, and  now  located  at  Berkeley,  may  be  established  in  the  City  of 
San  Francisco,  have  had  the  same  under  consideration,  and  now  respect- 
fully report : 

That  the  University  was  located  at  Berkeley  by  a  most  competent 
and  intelligent  Board  of-  Commissioners,  after  many  months  of  careful 
examination  and  investigation,  and  such  location  was  subsequently 
approved  and  ratified  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State; 

That  by  reason  of  such  location,  and  as  a  condition  thereof,  one  hun- 
dred and  sixty  acres  of  land  was  given  to  the  State,  now  worth  nearly 
or  quite  two  hundred  thousand  dollars,  and  the  State  accepted  the  same, 
and  pledged  its  faith  for  the  fulfilment  of  such  conditions; 

That  in  full  reliance  upon  the  fulfilment  of  the  said  conditions  by  the 
State,  the  College  of  California  has  transferred  its  students  to  the  Uni- 
versity, and  prepared  to,  if  it  has  not  already  disincorporated  and  gone 
out  of  existence ; 

That  citizens  of  the  State,  acting  upon  the  faith  thus  pledged,  and 
desiring  to  secure  the  educational  and  other  advantages  that  will  attach 
to  the  University,  have  purchased  homesteads  in  its  immediate  vicinity, 
at  prices  largely  increased  by  reason  thereof,  and  that  the  sums  so 
invested  are  much  more  than  half  a  million  of  dollars; 

That  a  railroad  has  been  completed  nearl}-  half  way  from  Oakland  to 
the  University  grounds,  and  that  the  residue  will  be  constructed  before 
the  building  can  be  ready  for  use;  that  the  same  has  been  undertaken 
solely  to  provide  the  means  of  speedy  and  easy  access  to  the  University, 
and  but  for  its  location  there,  would  not  have  been  commenced; 

That  nearly  or  quite  fifty  thousand  dollars  of  the  funds  of  the  Uni- 
versity have  been  expended  in  procuring  additional  and  necessary  land, 
in  securing  a  perpetual  and  abundant  supply  of  water,  in  planting  trees, 
making  roads,  laying  foundations  and  preparing  to  erect  the  necessary 
buildings  for  the  University; 


That  an  area  of  more  than  five  thousand  acres  of  land  has  been 
advanced  in  market  value,  more  than  one  hundred  dollars  per  acre, 
and  some  of  it  more  than  five  hundred  dollars  per  acre,  by  reason  of  the 
location  of  the  University,  and  that  much  more  than  one  million  dollars 
has  thus  been  added  to  the  available  value  of  property  of  citizens  of  the 
State ; 

That  one  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  acres  of  land,  donated  by  the 
General  Government  for  the  establisment  of  an  Agricultural  College, 
have  been  transferred  to  and  now  form  a  very  large  part  of  the  endow- 
ment of  the  University ;  that  said  lands  are  of  the  value  of  half  a  mil- 
lion of  dollars  and  upwards,  and  that  the  condition  upon  which  they 
were  given  requires  a  large  farm,  as  an  indispensable  adjunct  to  the 
University. 

If  the  University  should  now  be  removed  from  Berkeley,  or  be  so 
weakened  by  division  as  to  greatly  impair  its  usefulness,  these  large 
donations  would  either  revert  to  the  donors  or  be  held  by  technical 
legalities,  in  defiance  of  equitable  or  moral  right;  and  the  large  sums 
invested  on  the  faith  of  the  action  of  the  State,  or  added  to  the  value 
of  the  adjacent  property  by  the  general  confidence  in  its  integrity, 
would  be  wholly  lost. 

Your  committee  are  therefore  forced  to  the  conclusion  that  the  location 
of  the  University  at  Berkeley  has  become  a  matter  of  public  faith,  that 
cannot  be  altered  or  interfered  with  without  dishonor;  that  to  attempt 
to  locate  one  portion  of  the  University  there  and  another  in  San  Fran- 
cisco would  be  to  render  each  division  worthless ;  that  a  much  larger 
Faculty  would  be  required;  that  the  students  attending  one  portion  of 
the  University  would  be  deprived  of  the  benefit  of  the  other  part;  that 
library  and  cabinets  must  be  doubled,  or  each  be  wholly  incomplete; 
that  the  government  of  the  University  would  be  kept  vibrating  between 
the  two  divisions,  flr  else  give  up  its  functions  and  leave  each  to  take 
care  of  itself;  that  unity  of  system  and  concert  of  action  would  thus  be 
rendered  impossible,  and  the  influence,  efficacy  and  power  of  the  Uni- 
versity for  good  would  be  greatly  weakened,  if  not  entirely  destroyed. 

Your  committee  have  looked  in  vain  to  the  arguments  of  the  memo- 
rial for  answers  to  these  grave  objections.  They  have  not  been  led  by 
their  experience  in  life  to  expect  that  mechanics  and  artisans  engaged 
in  the  daily  and  arduous  labors  of  their  respective  callings  are  to  furnish 
the  students  of  the  Universit}',  nor  do  they  suppose  that  it  is  the  inten- 
tion of  the  people  of  the  State  to  found  only,  or  chiefly,  an  "  evening 
school/'  When  the  classes  referred  to  in  the  memorial  appreciate  and 
seek  the  knowledge  that  the  University  will  oifer  them,  they  will  find 
their  highest  improvement  in  withdrawing  for  a  time  from  the  noise 
and  turmoil  of  the  great  city,  and  giving  up  their  whole  minds  to  the 
object  they  have  in  view,  in  the  quiet  seclusion  of  Berkeley. 

The  committee  are  compelled  to  remember  that  mechanics  and  artisans 
are  not  to  be  the  only  students  of  the  University.  To  make  the  change 
desired,  on  their  account,  would  be  to  expose  the  large  number  of  young 
men  that  are  the  most  likely  to  seek  education  in  the  University  to  all 
the  temptations  and  dangers  of  a  great  city.  Prudent  fathers  would 
hesitate  before  they  would  subject  their  sons  to  such  hazards,  and  it 
might  well  be  that  for  every  one  that  would  make  a  convenience  of  the 
University  for  their  spare  hours,  if  the  removal  was  made,  ten  who 
would  have  sought  it  for  thorough  education  would  be  be  kept  away. 
Increased  expense  and  greater  exposure  would  attend  upon  every  step 


of  those  who  should  be  removed  with  it  to  the  hurry  and  bustle  of  the 
great  city. 

In  reference  to  the  department  of  agriculture,  the  incongruity  of  the 
proposed  change  is  too  obvious  to  require  comment. 

The  committee,  while  they  disclaim  all  reflections  upon  the  motives 
of  the  memorialists,  cannot  avoid  calling  attention  to  the  injury  that  is 
done  to  the  University  by  eiforts  to  unsettle  its  location.  More  than 
any  other  interest  of  the  State,  it  requires  to  be  left  to  take  root  where 
it  has  been  planted.  It  will  need  all  its  strength  for  its  own  growth 
and  development,  without  being  paralyzed  or  weakened  by  any  effort  to 
tear  it  up,  at  every  suggestion  of  individual  preference  or  local  selfish- 
ness. Its  roots  must  strike  deep,  and  spread  wide,  if  the  coming  gener- 
ations, for  whom  we  work,  are  to  find  in  its  shades  the  academic  groves 
where  science,  in  its  best  development,  shall  walk  hand  in  hand  with 
true  art;  where  philosophy  shall  teach,  even  as  it  learns,  its  ever- 
advancing  lessons;  and  where,  for  the  first  time  on  earth,  a  great  State 
shall  offer  to  each  of  its  citizens  the  highest  and  noblest  education,  as 
free  as  the  water  they  drink  or  the  air  they  breathe. 

Believing  that  the  time  has  come  when  the  best  interests  of  the 
University  and  of  the  State  require  that  this  question  should  be  put  for- 
ever at  rest,  the  committee  have  thought  it  their  duty  to  thus  investi- 
gate the  whole  matter,  and  to  recommend  the  passage  of  the  following 
resolution : 

Resolved,  That  the  location  of  the  State  University  at  Berkeley  was 
made  for  such  consideration,  and  under  such  circumstances,  that  the 
interest  and  the  honor  of  the  State  alike  forbid  its  removal. 

GWIN,  Chairman. 


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HEMW,  In  the  Act  creating  an  Agricultural,  Mirnng  and  Mechanical 
Arts  College,  and  that  creating  and  endowing  the  University  of  Cal  - 
forma  ind  establishing  therein  the  several  Colleges  of  Mines,  Agn 

ulture  Engineering  aid  the  Mechanical  Arts  the  Legislature  .have 
wisely  recognized  the  importance  to  the  people  of  this  State  of  the 
«  ec  al  cuWvation  and  development  of  those  branches  of  learning 

^hich  are  part  "ularly  connected  with  the  useful  arts  and  affect  most 
elv  the  interests  of  mechanics  and  the  industrial  classes  generally; 

ndtherea,  in  order  that  the  University  should  attain  any  consider- 
nble  degree  of  usefulness  to  those  classes,  and  thus  realize  the  benefi- 
cent intentions  of  the  Legislature  in  their  behalf,  it  is  'Dispensable 

Mt  those  Colleges  should  be  located  in  some  centre  of  populf 
and  industry,  where  the  parties  to  be  benefited  by  special  and  partial 
course*  of  instruction  may  have  access  to  the  library,  museum  am 

aboi-atory  of  the  University,  and  an  opportunity  to  attend  its  co  u> 
of  lectures,  without  thereby  abandoning  tbeir  ordmary  and  neces,ar} 


wt  the  establishment  of  the  Colleges  of  applied  science 
ibov"  referred  to,  at  Berkeley,  will  operate  to  exclnde  from  then-  I 
fits  all  persons  except  the  very  small  number  of  youths  whose  parents 
Save  the  means  and  inclination  to  incur  the  heavy  expenditure  incident 
to  a  residence  in  that  immediate  vicinity;  and  as  such  persons  ma. 
natural  y  be  expected  to  give  preference  to  the  academic,  or  merely 
literary  course  of  studies,  the  Colleges  of  applied  science,  if  established 
it  Berkeley  will  become  practically  useless  to  the  public 

SwfThat  the  City  of  San  Francisco  embraces  within  its  popu- 
htion  a  larger  body  of  mechanics  and  working  people  than  any  localitj 
in  the  8  at!,  while  at  the  same  time,  in  its  numerous  workshops,  facto- 
re,  etc  it  offers  the  best  opportunity  for  students  to  witness  the 

nictilV  application  of  scientific  instruction  to  the  various  pursuits 
industry    for   which   reason  we   are  of  opinion    that  the 
applied  science  in  the  University  of  California  should  be  located  ,n  some 

"  jffiTTh*  we%ectful.y  memorialize  the  Legisl  ature  to  pa,s  an 
Act  locating  the  Colleges  of  Mines,  Agriculture,  Civil  and  Mechanical 
Engineering  and  Mechanical  Arts  in  this  city,  and  devoting  (with  the 
consent  of  the  city  authorities)  one  of  the  public  squares  for  the  erection 
of  the  necessary  buildings  therefor. 

THE  MECHANICS'  INSTITUTE, 

Per  A.  S   TIALLIDIE,  President. 
San  Francisco,  Januar}T  25th,  1870. 

The  above  memorial  was  unanimously  adopted  at  the  special  meeting 
of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Mechanics'  Institute   January    we.U- 
nith,  eighteen  hundred  and  seventy,  and  referred  to  the  PreM 
presentation.  G£O    pAEDYj  Secretary. 

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